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Powerplant options and what not
Hi folks. I'm new here, so a formal hello to everyone. I have an 02 Boxster S with 70k on the clock. I purchased it from Porsche Lease where it was previously owned by a Pharm rep and thus the large amount of highway miles. No winters on the car and it drives great, very healthy currently.
In any case, I purchased the car with its known high(er) miles since I've been looking for a Boxster to do a 3.4 or 3.6 swap with ( I have access to a 3.4 with less than 20k on it), and the opportunity to start with a factory S was very attractive due to the 6-speed, larger brakes, etc. However, now that I've started looking at options, it would appear that FabSpeed claims 345HP from an S using their full exhaust with high flow catted headers, intake, and new DME software. If that is really the case, I would be very happy with 345HP out of my S (with the obvious advantages of using the motor that was designed to be in the car), though now we're doing that on a higher mileage motor. Part of me wants to assume that since it has made it this far without RMS issues or blowing up, etc that it wil be healthy for a while still, the other part of me says that it may be due for thigns like an Oil Seperator in the sooner than later future.
So, this leads to ask the viability of either leaving the motor in the car and just driving it with scheduled maintenance, pulling the factory 3.2 and freshening it sooner than later so I can stop worrying about it, simply putting a lower mileage 3.2 into it, or going ahead with my 3.4 or 3.6 swap. Either way, I'm rather inclined to do something before the current powerplant decides to scatter itself to all four corners of the earth.
Thoughts please? And thank you.
Patrick
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